Description of Locomotion Events: Language-Specific Patterns in Child-Directed Speech
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2023.2269702" target="_blank" >10.1080/00437956.2023.2269702</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Description of Locomotion Events: Language-Specific Patterns in Child-Directed Speech
Original language description
The present paper explores how young children, depending on the provided input, acquire language-specific perspectives in the construal of goal-oriented locomotion events. We recorded parent-child interactions using drawings depicting such events. Czech monolingual pairs (n = 25), Russian monolingual pairs (n = 25), and Russian-German bilingual pairs (n = 22) were recruited for this study. Previous findings (Mertins 2018; Stutterheim et al. 2012) have demonstrated that Russian speakers conceptualize goal-oriented locomotion under the phasal perspective. Czech speakers, on the other hand, rely on the holistic perspective and are thus similar to German native speakers. In languages with a holistic perspective, speakers tend to focus on the endpoints of locomotion events. Therefore, we analyzed their prevalence in the parental language. The analyses revealed that Czech parents produced significantly more endpoints in the description of the critical stimuli than Russian and Russian-German parents. We argue that conceptual preferences and the verbalization of goal-oriented locomotion are input driven and acquired in early childhood.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Word
ISSN
0043-7956
e-ISSN
2373-5112
Volume of the periodical
69
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
339-361
UT code for WoS article
001103659400004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85176351297